When you have a mental illness, whether it be depression, anxiety, OCD, schizophrenia, or any of the raft of conditions that plague we humans, it is inevitable that, somewhere along our journey of recovery, we will encounter people who do not understand. But they are not content with merely not understanding mental illness. They feel it is their duty to deliver “advice”. Often, much of that advice is wrong, even harmful. In fact, if carefully questioned, many of the people who make derogatory or misinformed remarks to those suffering from a mental illness actually know very little about those conditions … Continue reading →